1. mattrad Nov 29, 2025 parent

   Would you mind sharing which server please?
2. mattrad Nov 10, 2025 parent

   UK Govt. stupidity aside, Apple could allow iOS users to switch their backup provider from iCloud to other services or backup targets. But they won't because they want to continue to grow their services revenue.
3. mattrad Apr 26, 2025 parent

   Crap Towns called Hythe "...quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent." and "...the place that makes nearby Folkestone look like Las Vegas."

   As someone who grew up in Hythe in the 80s and 90s I'd point out that the Rotunda was a far cry from Vegas.

   https://www.warrenpress.net/FolkestoneThenNow/The_Demolition...

4. mattrad Jan 12, 2025 parent

   “WordPress is in trouble” depends on what “WordPress” is.

   WordPress the supply chain is currently dependent on wordpress.org. The community is working to route around this by decentralising distribution - see efforts such as AspirePress.

   WordPress the software development project is dependent on wordpress.org, and there is no way to route around this unless Matt agrees to give up his DFL position or a fork is created.

   WordPress the brand is being tarnished, mostly by Matt’s actions. wpdrama creates a riskier environment when assessing whether to use it as a CMS.

   WordPress the community is being denigrated and diminished. Again, I think only a change in governance can resolve that.

5. mattrad Jan 11, 2025 parent

   ClassicPress is the only public one with any traction. wordpress.com could be considered a private fork.
6. mattrad Jan 11, 2025 parent

   There is no fork at the moment, there was only discussion of how to move releases forward on PostStatus Slack. It's a purge.
7. mattrad Nov 17, 2024 parent

   There was a submission like that :) https://github.com/CSS-Next/css-next/issues/105#issuecomment...
8. mattrad Oct 13, 2024 parent

   I don't know what you mean by "bumpy road". ACF has been solid for years, and has received excellent care and updates since moving to Delicious Brains and then WP Engine.
9. mattrad Oct 13, 2024 parent

   You don't need to migrate from ACF to a different plugin, you can still access ACF and received future updates indepedent of wordpress.org. See https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/installing-and-upg...
10. mattrad Aug 4, 2021 parent

    I wonder what LBJ would make of that statement?

    One person's divisive, minority issue is another's fight for the fundamental right to be treated equally under the law.

11. mattrad May 26, 2021 parent

    Could you please consider adding support for custom fields as part of this? For example, to be really useful in the in the UK, donation links would need to ask if the donor is eligible for Gift Aid (which increases donations by 25%). This then needs at least house/flat number and postcode to make a valid Gift Aid application (and some organisations may ask for more address details than that).

    With those additional fields it would mean we could post donation links all over the place, and then get donor details out of Stripe for the donations team. Thanks :)

12. mattrad Mar 28, 2021 parent

    There is also an excellent NPR Throughline episode on this: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955735429/what-happened-after...
13. mattrad Dec 20, 2018 parent

    Great write up, thank you! Looking at your blog post, it seems that once I've followed your guide, I only need to forward port 51820 from my router to the WG server. Is that correct?
14. mattrad Oct 4, 2018 parent

    Sorry, that's incorrect. Shortcuts are available independent of Siri being enabled - I've just checked this by disabling Siri on my phone.
15. mattrad Jul 26, 2017 parent

    UK Scouting is fully non-gendered for all ages; see Scouting for All and the Equal Opportunities Policy: http://scouts.org.uk/about-us/key-policies/equal-opportuniti....

    UK Guiding allows girls and young women, but fully supports gender self-identification: https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/making-guiding-happen/policie....

    Scouting and Guiding in the UK are refreshingly progressive organisations. Source: current Scout leader.

16. mattrad Jul 7, 2015 parent

    I suggest you read Robert Kagan's "Dangerous Nation". It skewers the idea that America is not an empire, and demonstrates that America has always been aggressively expansionist.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Nation-Americas-Earliest-T...

17. mattrad Apr 29, 2015 parent

    This is nonsense - there's nothing about a Node.js re-write in the 4.3 kickoff post: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/28/wordpress-4-3-kic...
18. mattrad Apr 23, 2014 parent

    Would also be very nice if someone set up an auto-deploy such as the one Tinfoil did for VPNs: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/vpn/new
19. mattrad Nov 19, 2013 parent

    That's done it! Where's the HN tip jar? :)
20. mattrad Nov 19, 2013 parent

    I've just tried to update to stable using the instructions there, and when I ran apt-get install nginx, it returned:

    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.4.4-1~precise_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/nginx', which is also in package nginx-full 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.2 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/nginx_1.4.4-1~precise_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    Any suggestions on how to fix this? Ta.

21. mattrad Sep 3, 2013 parent

    Icon Slate is pretty good too. Mac only.

    http://www.kodlian.com/apps/icon-slate

22. mattrad Jan 28, 2013 parent

    There is an alternative to managewp.com: https://wpremote.com/ (not affiliated, etc.)

    It's free, and UK-based - so benefits from EU data protection. By @humanmadeltd.

    EDIT: Running on EC2 AFAIK, so subject to Safe Harbor, FWIW.

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